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Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:58:55 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c399way to much credithttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c374
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:36:31 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c374 Now we can offer rape you with your pants on tiered data plans because we can claim we are giving young people a way to not pay so much... but of course we are not doing that at all.]]>Re: Re: Roku!https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c352
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:07:59 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c352Well, boxee will probably eventually be running flash and that just doesn't run well on a primitive old box. DVD rips and over-the-air TV recordings can run well on an ancient cast-off box but Hulu can't. It's using a more "modern" encoding and is terribly put together.

while i am pissed at intel over this whole HDMI + upgrade card fiasco, there's no denying that the atom CPU and nvidia ion chipset make a decent, inexpensive, flash capable machine, provided it has more than a gig of ram.

i wish AMD made a similar low power/low heat/low cost chip.

flash on old hardware usually comes down to RAM, the more the merrier. the problem is that 2gb of ram on a 6 year old box, if the box even supports it, can be tough to find and tends to be expensive.]]>Re: Re: lets seehttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c330
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:55:55 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c330 so i canceled DSL and have cable now, but i took the highest connect speed and the lowest number of channels. i did this because i had no other choice.

though, now that i have worked with the cable company's business service to get broadband for my hackerspace, i am wondering what it would take to get business service for myself at my house and not bother with cable television at all.]]>Re: Re: New Respecthttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c313
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:46:40 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c313"Emerging executives are pretty smart. They're not going to keep trying to sell us something we don't have to pay for. They'll figure out another way to give us something that we'll want to buy."

they only have one thing i want to buy, residential broadband and mobile service.

i can get everything else over tcp/ip.]]>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c294
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:59:04 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c294 Home phone? Who needs it. I've moved about 10 times in as many years for work, my number changes constantly due to area providers. Started using MagicJack, number stays the same for years, I don't even plug it in, it just forwards to my cell so I don't have to give that number out. Cut the cord already. Get your home wired with ethernet instead of coax and phone jacks and tell your local provider to shove those 'bundles' where the sun doesn't shine. A generation has figured out a way to deliver their own 'cafeteria plan' for media because cable & sat couldn't/wouldn't offer it.]]>Re: Call me crazy..https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c285
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:57:05 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c285Re: Re: New Respecthttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c282
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:00:52 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c282GoogleTVhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c274
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:00:14 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c274Re: Re: Denialhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c263
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:56:00 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c263Hoo-ah !!!https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c252
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:24:26 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c252 The cable companies are in for a rude awakening over the next few years as profits shrink from cord cutting, and competition increases from cable companies expanding into each others monopolies in an attempt to maintain profits.

Its going to be fun to watch and Kudos to GE for seeing this when media industry insiders can't.]]>Call me crazy..https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c235
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:22:37 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c235most of the programming available, but cable with my DVR is so much more convenient than downloading shows or waiting 8 days for damned Hulu to bring up new episodes. I have about 8 or 9 shows that always record, so I just live off the DVR, commercial-free. Plus I don't have to worry about anybody else I live with bogging down my bandwidth. Comcast may charge an arm and a leg, and I do split the cost with two roommates, but even alone I'd be willing to pay the price of that added convenience of just being able to sit back with a remote and watch.]]>Translation:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c229
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:59:02 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c229 He is not acknowledging that fact because he is a good guy, he is doing so because he already mapped out how things should play out and probably got some assurances that it will play that way.

Short version:

He already got in place the things he need and will screw every customer under the sun.]]>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c227
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:52:05 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c227and who needs a tv? once you have a 80$ computer and a 120$ 20 inch monitor WHO cares then yu dont just have a tv you have a game console game machine work station and more

Yep ^^

The TV's usefulness for me started to quickly die in 1980 when I got an Atari 2600.

I have NO high def TV's at home, LOL. I do have a 24" Wide Screen monitor though! A TV is a waste of cash for me.]]>nhl nfl UFC nbahttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c220
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:41:37 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c220 and who needs a tv? once you have a 80$ computer and a 120$ 20 inch monitor WHO cares then yu dont just have a tv you have a game console game machine work station and more]]>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c200
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:30:26 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c200 Expensive to watch my teams play on my TV :-/]]>Re: Roku!https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c180
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:08:24 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c180 Something like a Roku gets around that by having speciality decoding hardware and actually using it.

My $200 HTPC decodes BluRay rips just fine but can't handle Hulu because of Flash.]]>Re: Roku!https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c174
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:57:38 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c174Roku!https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c150
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:47:51 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c150 We use Netflix, so I just got a Roku box. This thing is awesome, and only $59. I have 3mb dsl service, and it streams all the Netflix (and other stuff) in really nice quality, and for no extra fee! My wife finally stopped complaining and we have been watching and discovering lots of new things.

Now we no longer miss cable.]]>Re: New Respecthttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c130
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:44:02 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c130 "Young people are pretty smart. They're not going to pay for something they don't need to."

Mine is:

"Emerging executives are pretty smart. They're not going to keep trying to sell us something we don't have to pay for. They'll figure out another way to give us something that we'll want to buy."]]>Re: Denialhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c116
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:30:20 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c116Denialhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c110
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:56:18 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c110New Respecthttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c109
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:54:47 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c109Re: lets seehttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c106
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:50:52 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c106It isn't that we don't need to pay for Cablehttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c97
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:48:45 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c97 Then I can see why I would pay for Cable. Otherwise when my triple play runs out (it is running out next month) I will continue to cancel my cable and only pay for internet and phone (but without all three the only one I NEED is the internet, where yes they will continue to over charge for less service because they have monopolies in individual markets. Sucks for me but I will be damned if I have to pay $60 just for cable TV.]]>OH and my agehttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c80
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:33:59 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c80p.s.https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c57
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:29:11 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c57lets seehttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c37
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:28:30 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c37 play music play movies play tv play games marketing with web servering make software run software

LIKE this replaces cable/satellite vcrs and tv ghetto boxes and stereo sytems game consoles etc

do a price comparison to the above and a cheap used 100$ computer can do it all....]]>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c12
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:26:13 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c12 Now I have unlimited bandwidth on my computer. Yay for technology. I'm also paying the same, if not less, than I paid previously.]]>